Optimal Device Design

Explore the frontier of device engineering by applying optimization to nanoscience and device design. This cutting-edge work shows how robust, manufacturable designs that meet previously unobtainable system specifications can be created using a combination of modern computer power, adaptive algorithms, and realistic device-physics models. Applying this method to nanoscience is a path to creating new devices with new functionality, and it could be the key design element in making nanoscience a practical technology. Basic introductory examples along with MATLAB code are included, through to more formal and sophisticated approaches, and specific applications and designs are examined. Essential reading for researchers and engineers in electronic devices, nanoscience, materials science, applied mathematics, and applied physics.

Explore the frontier of device engineering by applying optimization to nanoscience and device design. This cutting-edge work shows how robust, manufacturable designs that meet previously unobtainable system specifications can be created using a combination of modern computer power, adaptive algorithms, and realistic multi-physics models. Applying this method to nanoscience is a path to creating new devices with new functionality, and it could be the key design element contributing to transitioning nanoscience to a practical technology. Basic introductory examples along with MATLAB code are included, through to more formal and sophisticated approaches, and specific applications and designs are examined. Essential reading for researchers and engineers in electronic devices, nanoscience, materials science, applied mathematics, and applied physics.

A. F. J. Levi is Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southern California. He joined USC after working for 10 years at AT&T Bell Labs, New Jersey. Professor Levi is the author of the book Applied Quantum Mechanics, Second Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Stephan Haas is Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Southern California.